Magic Lessons #62 – Secret Magic Code

This secret magic code is a great magic trick you can use to baffle your friends, family or work colleagues.

Two-person code acts have been a staple of mentalism acts over the past century. Usually on stage there would be a ‘mind reader’ who would sometimes don a blindfold that had been checked by an audience member who would verify that it was ‘not gimmicked’.

Magic Lessons #47 – Sheikh Mabooty

The card stab trick or ‘mid-air’ card stab as it’s also know has multiple variations by so many well known magicians.

The premise is a card is picked from the deck by a selected audience member. The card is then returned and shuffled so it is lost in the rest of the deck. The magician is blindfolded and takes a sharp knife and plunges into the deck of cards and as it is sprung into the air, the audience member’s card is seen to be skewered to the magician’s knife.

There are many variations, some of which include blindfolds, no blindfolds, knives, swords or skewers. Sometimes the cards are spread across the top of a table and the knife is plunged into the pile of cards. The cards that remained are taken away until one card remains, the chosen card that is pinned to the tabletop.

Magic Lessons #46 – Elephants Never Forget Trick

The ‘Elephants Never Forget Trick’ is one of the easiest mentalism tricks out there. Some magicians fall into the trap of believing that a magic trick that is easy to learn and perform will not have a strong effect on the audience, when in most situations, this is simply not the case.

There is a strange phenomenon that seems to be brewing in the magic world. Because there are so many technical moves and sleights that can be learned, and many of these take time to master, magicians usually equate hard = good. Again, this is not always the case.